The duck

 

Over the past three months I’ve been parking in the same spot when I go to the pool

 and I’ve noticed that this one particular duck always comes over to me 

even if he’s across the street when I pull up,

 he’ll come over to me 

sometimes he’ll take my bread or other things that I have to feed to him 

and other times he’ll just look at me and walk away.

 It’s been really fun getting to know my new friend the duck

almost every time  

something different happens

 it fun to watch his behavior and personality 

Today I pulled up and I fed him and then his partner came down from the sky and landed in the road 

kind of with a hard thump 

and I noticed that while it was trying to eat 

what I threw out there, 

it wasn’t moving to get more ,

 and I got a little bit closer, and I threw the food  to where it was 

and this duck was in a lot of pain… it just gave up on eating

so I backed off for a while and just sat back in my car and watched

……. the other duck

  My friend with the fun personality kept going over to the injured duck 

walking to it 

and then walking away over to the grass 

and then walking over to it 

and walking over the grass

 like it was showing it how to go 

and where to go 

 But this other duck was in so much pain. 

It was just laying in the road

 so I started praying for the duck 

and I thought of all the things that I could do to help it 

I could grab a shirt and pick it up and move it over to the grass 

but then I thought well if I do that, 

then I might scare it 

cause it to hurt its leg  and i might make it worse 

then, worse things could happen

 and then I thought well if I do that, then maybe that duck will trust me and it’ll be thankful for it 

but later down the road someone will try to hurt it 

and all cause it trusted them 

like it did me.  

Which might be bad for the duck 

I kept trying to help it  in my mind with all different kinds of ways on how to help it 

without hurting it in the future 

so I had all these different thoughts of how I could help

 how it would hinder

 how I could help 

how It could hinder the duck

and this is the thought that came to me 

Let me kind of explain what my thoughts were…….

 I slowly walked up to it about 15 feet away and i Just started talking to it, Explaining to it what I was going to do

 and then I said I’m just gonna move forward and I’m just gonna help you out

 and I’m just gonna  Give you Hopefully the confidence so that you can get out of  the road Then go lay in the grass and rest 

It is 6 AM so luckily nobody is driving around 

and so I walked up to it and waited till it got up. It’s leg bent backward and I could tell it was in pain

 and then I slowly nudged it forward.

Just walking ever so slowly, not trying to scare it but to urge it forward

 It was Quacking the whole time and then it needed a break and I noticed and I backed off

 and let it take a break for a little bit , and then I keep going, I moved forward and let it move forward across the road

eventually it came to the curb that it had to jump up to onto the curb

It was hard to watch and not be able to reach down and help

But eventually, it made it up And then it went and laid in the grass

It took about 10 minutes to help it to get to the grass

And my other friend, the other duck just nestled its head into its wings and looked

 as if it went to sleep like it could rest, 

knowing that the other duck Was safe

I have been watching the ducks for about 20 minutes since I helped them over in the grass

And off of the road

I am so glad I got inspired not to touch the duck

But to let it figure out on its own 

that it could do it

I was only there to encourage it

And let the duck know that it could do it on its own 

through kindness and encouragement

 as it was going…

And then I backed off and let it rest

This was a really fun experience this morning 

The brown duck is the one that always comes around me and has such a fun attitude

The green one is the hurt duck

::David::

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